teaching programming to children

[Jeff Sandys]

I think Python is appropriate for this age group, I will be using 
it in a middle school (grade 7-8, age 12-13) programming club.

I plan to use _How to Think Like a Computer Scientist_ as the 
lesson outline and let the students work on small projects.
	http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCSpy/

I have some other links about Python In Schools at this URL:
	http://www.seapig.org/PythonInSchools

Thanks,
Jeff Sandys

andy at post.tau.ac.il wrote:
> 
> A young friend of me (12 years old) has asked me to teach him 
> programming ... . I choose python because I personally like it 
> but I was wondering to what extent is it appropriate for this task.